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    Quote Originally Posted by p.dath View Post
    So is the moral of the story that if enough people are doing something wrong then it all becomes okay?
    Sorta. Yeah.

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    Quote Originally Posted by p.dath View Post
    So is the moral of the story that if enough people are doing something wrong then it all becomes okay?
    But it can't be wrong if "everybody" is doing it ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by p.dath View Post
    So is the moral of the story that if enough people are doing something wrong then it all becomes okay?
    Of course not. Lots of people doing something wrong is just lots of people doing something wrong. The moral of the story is that if I'm doing it then it all becomes OK.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GOONR View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    Lots of people doing something wrong is just lots of people doing something wrong.
    Lots of people doing something wrong is lots of people having a good time.

    Cmon people, go do what you want to do. It'll be fun! Just don't get caught and don't hurt yourself or anyone else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by p.dath View Post
    So is the moral of the story that if enough people are doing something wrong then it all becomes okay?
    Isn't that the very nature of a democracy?
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    Quote Originally Posted by SMOKEU View Post
    I ride a push bike as well (only when I'm too drunk to legally operate a motor vehicle) and I don't care if motorbikes ride in the cycle lane.
    Watch-out for this, if a cop decides to pull you over, you can be done for drink driving. Seriously - if you're on the road it's classed as a vehicle. Although, you would have to get a really shitty cop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron_newrider View Post
    Watch-out for this, if a cop decides to pull you over, you can be done for drink driving. Seriously - if you're on the road it's classed as a vehicle. Although, you would have to get a really shitty cop.
    This is right, also the speed limit for bikes on the road is 30kph and I have been pulled for speeding....so it was 20 years ago...and I was going downhill...and I overtook an unmarked car....doing 70k....man did I get a telling off

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    Well, if the cars can use the bike lanes - why shouldn't motorcycles be allowed to? And if we are to share the roads and cyclists stray outside their bicycle lanes - surely they would welcome us sharing their space as we share ours with them, surely?

    More often than not I see people cutting across the bikelanes during corners - and some numbnuts seems to place half of their vehicle in them even on the straights... it beggars belief. What is the point of marking up bike lanes if they are just considered to be part of the left lane anyway?

    That said, I will quite happily use the bike lane to split to the front at intersections - if, and only if, there is no other options. (I.e. people fail to keep left...)
    Just like I am not adverse to utilising a smidgeon of flushed merians if people are sitting towards the righthand side of their lane doing less than TSL+10 km/h.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SMOKEU View Post
    I ride a push bike as well (only when I'm too drunk to legally operate a motor vehicle) and I don't care if motorbikes ride in the cycle lane.
    you may as well drive you will be DIC either way......(not something I agree with btw! )
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    Quote Originally Posted by firefighter View Post
    you may as well drive you will be DIC either way......(not something I agree with btw! )
    Does anyone know.... if you're DIC'd while on a pushbike and you hold a driver's license will you lose it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clockwork View Post
    Does anyone know.... if you're DIC'd while on a pushbike and you hold a driver's license will you lose it?
    This has been discussed in a thread I started several months ago. It is not illegal to ride a push bike drunk as long as you are not causing a danger to yourself or the public. It is illegal to walk in the middle of the road extremely drunk and creating a traffic hazard though, but it is not possible to be disqualified from driving due to an offence commited on push bike. I think it might be classed as disorderly behaviour, or breach of the peace, maybe a police officer can shed some light on this?

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    The bigest think that fuckes me off about cyclists is them riding down the cycle lane side by side... some times 3 a breast, the 3rd guy is over the white line...

    Those fuckers deserve to get hit by a car... Some one needs to write a road code for them...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drogen Omen View Post
    Those fuckers deserve to get hit by a car...
    So much anger!



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